More Songs About The Trees

Because you can never have too many Songs About The Trees (or maybe you can), here's a second and final set. So what are you waiting for? By all means...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Oh Land  ~  "Family Tree"

2)  Pearl Jam  ~  "In My Tree"

3)  Mother Mother  ~  "Monkey Tree"

4)  Dave Matthews Band  ~  "The Dreaming Tree"

5)  Judy Garland & Margaret O'Brien  ~  "Under The Bamboo Tree"

6)  Plain White T's  ~  "The Giving Tree"

7)  Eva Cassidy  ~  "Tall Trees In Georgia"

8)  Trevor Hall  ~  "The Lime Tree"

9)  Moby ft. Julie Mintz  ~  "The Sorrow Tree"

10)  Foals  ~  "Birch Tree"

11)  Amy Montgomery  ~  "Tree Song (Branch Out & Nourish My Veins)"

12)  U2  ~  "One Tree Hill"

13)  L.E.J.  ~  "Hanging Tree"  (Yeah, I know there was another version – the original, no less! – of this one in the first post. But this rendition is so much more nuanced, so artsy-fartsy, and just so darn good I couldn't help but include it here as well.)

14)  Lacey Sturm  ~  "Mercy Tree"

15)  Pam Tillis  ~  "Shake The Sugar Tree"

16)  Peter Gabriel & Youssou N'Dour  ~  "Shaking The Tree"

17)  Shirley Bassey  ~  "The Living Tree"

18)  Angus and Julia Stone  ~  "Mango Tree"

19)  Alela Diane  ~  "The Alder Trees"

20)  Erykah Badu  ~  "Appletree"

21)  Beth Orton  ~  "Poison Tree"

22)  Esperanza Spalding  ~  "Cinnamon Tree"

23)  Basia  ~  "An Olive Tree"

24)  Della Mae  ~  "Pine Tree"

25)  Aurora  ~  "Apple Tree"

Still More Songs About Feelings

As promised, here’s one last set (maybe?) of Songs About Feelings for your listening pleasure. Don’t sigh at me – just enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Righteous Brothers  ~  “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’”

2)  The Chainsmokers ft. Kelsea Ballerini  ~  “This Feeling”

3)  Michael Bublé  ~  “Feeling Good”

4)  The Human League  ~  “(Keep Feeling) Fascination”

5)  The Moody Blues  ~  “Dawn Is A Feeling”

6)  Ivana Raymonda  ~  “Magical Feeling”  (I usually find this lady’s songs to be pleasantly campy yet surprisingly sincere. This one is all that and more, minus the “pleasant” part. She hits a couple of “off” notes that are awful…ly hard to ignore. But the fact that she’s putting herself out there, even if it’s not always her best foot, is still pretty admirable in my book.)

7)  Clear Conscience  ~  “Island Feeling”

8)  Moby ft. Rozz Morehead  ~  “Feeling So Real”

9)  Satellite Sky  ~  “Got This Feeling”

10)  Kris Kristofferson  ~  “Feeling Mortal”

11)  Dusya  ~  “Fight This Feeling”

12)  Joe Cocker  ~  “Feelin’ Alright”

13)  Three Dog Night  ~  “Good Feeling 1957”

14)  Natalie Shay  ~  “This Feeling”

15)  Rhys Lewis  ~  “I Know The Feeling”

16)  Mark Chesnutt  ~  “Lost In The Feeling”

17)  Halfnoise  ~  “Sudden Feeling”

18)  James Brown  ~  “I Got The Feelin’”

19)  Muse  ~  “Feeling Good”

20)  Chicago  ~  “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day”

“Wild” & “Crazy” Songs, Vol. 2

Just how "Wild" & "Crazy" can these songs be? I guess you'll have to find out for yourself... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Lindsey Stirling ft. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness  ~  “Something Wild”

2)  Queen  ~  “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”

3)  Lena  ~  “Wild & Free”

4)  Bill Haley & The Comets  ~  “Crazy Man Crazy”

5)  Local Sound  ~  “Wild”

6)  Adele  ~  “Crazy For You”

7)  Elina  ~  “Wild Enough”

8)  Black Sabbath  ~  “Crazy Train”

9)  Martina McBride  ~  “Wild Angels”

10)  Katie Melua  ~  “The Closest Thing To Crazy”

11)  Kool Moe Dee  ~  “Wild Wild West”

12)  Selah Sue  ~  “Crazy Vibes”

13)  Brett Dennen  ~  “Wild Child”

14)  The Doobie Brothers  ~  “World Gone Crazy”

15)  Brandi Carlile  ~  “Wilder (We’re Chained)”

16)  Paul Davis  ~  “I Go Crazy”

17)  Bishop Briggs  ~  “Wild Horses”

18)  Sammy Hagar  ~  “You Make Me Crazy”

19)  Alexia Coley  ~  “Drive Me Wild”

20)  Andy Grammer  ~  “Crazy Beautiful”

21)  Trampled By Turtles  ~  “Wild Animals”

22)  Deladap  ~  “Crazy Swing”

23)  Steve Miller Band  ~  “Wild Mountain Honey”

24)  Ornette  ~  “Crazy”

25)  Jean Stapleton  ~  “I’m Just Wild About Harry”

26)  Slade  ~  “Mama Were All Crazee Now”

27)  Emma Heesters  ~  “Wild Thoughts”  (This is a beautifully rendered and considerably sanitized version of a DJ Khaled/Rihanna/Bryson Tiller collab. I much prefer it to the original.)

28)  Melanie Martinez  ~  “I Think I’m Crazy”

29)  The Strumbellas  ~  “Young & Wild”

30)  Victoria Williams  ~  “Crazy Mary”

31)  Runaway June  ~  “Wild West”

32)  Barclay James Harvest  ~  “Crazy City”

33)  Moby  ~  “This Wild Darkness”

34)  Taylor Colson  ~  “I’m Gonna Show You Crazy”  (This is also a gorgeously rendered and highly sanitized version of an otherwise exceptional Bebe Rexha song. I’m not sure if I like it better, or just as much – but definitely not less – than the original.)

"Beautiful" Songs

If I didn't tell you this "theme" was a reboot from four-and-a-half years ago (on my original "The Plural Of Hyena" blog, no less), I'm sure you never would have remembered. But it is. And with good reason. Four-and-a-half years ago, I wasn't quite as adept at finding the perfect mix of well-known and lesser-known songs, which should (in theory) tip slightly in favor of the more well-known ones. Also, some of the really good songs included in this two-parter weren't even released four-and-a-half years ago. So here they are. I hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Lana Del Rey  ~  “Young And Beautiful”

2)  R.E.M.  ~  “At My Most Beautiful”

3)  Sofia Carson ft. Alan Walker  ~  “Back To Beautiful”

4)  Diamond Rio  ~  “Beautiful Mess”

5)  Kari Jobe  ~  “Beautiful”

6)  Zedd ft. Jon Bellion  ~  “Beautiful Now”

7)  Grace VanderWaal  ~  “Beautiful Thing”

8)  Prince  ~  “The Most Beautiful Girl In The World”

9)  Ace Of Base  ~  “Beautiful Life”

10)  311  ~  “Beautiful Disaster”

11)  Christina Aguilera  ~  “Beautiful”

12)  MIKA  ~  “Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)”

13)  Ellie Holcomb  ~  “The Broken Beautiful”

14)  The Rascals  ~  “A Beautiful Morning”

15)  Nightwish  ~  “Bye Bye Beautiful”

16)  Sean Kingston  ~  “Beautiful Girls”

17)  John Lennon  ~  “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”

18)  Aniri  ~  “Beautiful Life”

19)  Jeremy Camp  ~  “Beautiful One”  (To skip all the introductions, proceed directly to the 2:00 mark. Otherwise, you’ll get to know everyone in the band.)

20)  Joydrop  ~  “Beautiful”

21)  Mali Music  ~  “Beautiful”

22)  P!nk  ~  “Beautiful Trauma”

23)  Damian Marley ft. Bobby Brown  ~  “Beautiful”

24)  Tess  ~  “Dark But Beautiful”

25)  Moby  ~  “Beautiful”  (Really good song! Really creepy video!)